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I am starting a dedicated thread for the ZEN X-Fi even though it is very close to the Creative ZEN. The port is now in beta test! You can find the instruction here: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CreativeZENXFiPort. Don't forget that this is a preliminary version to it might be unstable and so on. I put a prebuilt version of the bootloader on my dropbox (see wiki link) and you can find the nightly build here: http://build.rockbox.org/data/rockbox-creativezenxfi.zip.A few important notes:1) you'll have to reformat the storage to FAT thus you cannot dual-boot and you will loose all your file on the device2) charging is not implemented, use the recovery mode to charge

It's much better now, no annoying white screen, my workaround was to keep the screen setting permanently on, but now I can set the back light to time out again, for the record I have 8GB non wifi version.

I just got Rockbox working on my X-Fi, thanks to your hard work. It looks awesome!

At first I tried to build everything myself, and after flashing the firmware.nk file I could get the basic text prompt (I.E. a black background with white text, saying that it was charging). However, when I tried to actually boot Rockbox it would first show the Creative logo twice and then go to a black screen.

Perhaps the build in the git repository is broken at the moment? Your prebuilt firmware is about two months old according to Dropbox. Unfortunately I don't know enough about developing for embedded systems to help you out (or even figure out if there's something wrong at the moment - I have no clue where to start).

Hi,the current ZEN X-Fi bootloader has a know problem (aka Black Screen of Death), I might have a found a fix, currently beta testing on the ZEN and will port to the X-Fi if it works. If this happen, just reset and you should eventually be able to boot rockbox. In doubt just a wait a few days so I can upload a new one hopefully.

Hi, I have enabled frequency scaling for improved battery life and speaker is now supported. The screen flicker on frequency change but I think it's very hard to impossible to remove without compromising battery life or performance so I hope it's not too bad.

Can anyone tell me how to remove Rockbox from a Creative ZEN X-Fi? I reinstalled the Creative firmware ZENXFI_PCFW_L22_1_04_08.exe, but now boot shows CREATIVE, then ZEN, then Firmware Problem. Thanks.

Hi,just so you know, I created and committed a keymap for all the plugins. Please refer to the Creative ZEN thread for more information. For now it doesn't use any key which is specific to the X-Fi, but if someone is willing to try and propose some improvements, I'll be happy to implement them.

Hi, I have enabled frequency scaling for improved battery life and speaker is now supported. The screen flicker on frequency change but I think it's very hard to impossible to remove without compromising battery life or performance so I hope it's not too bad.

The speaker works great. I took a look at the CPU frequency through the debug menu (for ~5 minutes while playing music) but it never changed, so I never saw any screen flicker. Maybe the CPU only idles in certain situations?I'm on revision eaaff26.